Read the database summary to be sure it fits your subject area and use simple searches. For example, type catechol-O-methyltransferase into a database search bar.
Use tools to increase/reduce results:
Truncation - symbols that allow you to get words beginning with what you've typed:
Asterisk (*) - Searching for behav* will find articles with the words behave, behavior, behavioral.
Operators AND or OR- use to add more terms to your search AND reduces results (more specific) : COMT AND behav* OR increases results (more broad): COMT OR catechol-O-methyltransferase
Limiters - use options (usually on the left) to narrow further
integrates information from a wide range of species. A record may include nomenclature, Reference Sequences (RefSeqs), maps, pathways, variations, phenotypes, and links to genome-, phenotype-, and locus-specific resources worldwide.
An independent, open access publisher of peer-reviewed biomedical research, including journal articles, current reports and meeting abstracts.
BioMed Central (BMC) is an independent open access publisher of peer-reviewed biomedical research. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. Subject covered include: biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neurosciences, physiology, plant physiology, and structural biology.
Provides full-text access to hundreds of peer-reviewed bioscience research journals.
BioOne provides a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact, peer-reviewed bioscience research journals, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today's most pressing topics. Most of these journals are published by small scientific societies and non-commercial publishers. The database enables integrated access to interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Articles are available in HTML and printer-friendly PDF formats. Updated weekly.
Provides access to over 21 million MEDLINE citations and over 3 million additional life science journal article citations.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960s and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources, including links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Provides citations and abstracts for life science literature.
Biological Abstracts is one of the foremost indexes on life science journal literature. The database indexes over 4,000 international journals and contains over 14 million archival records from as far back as 1926, with more than 370,000 citations added each year related to vital biological and medical research findings, clinical studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Subjects covered includes: agriculture, anatomy, bacteriology, behavioral sciences, biomedicine, bioengineering, biotechnology, botany, ecology, cell biology, clinical medicine, genetics, immunology, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, radiation and systematic biology, toxicology, virology, and zoology. Updated regularly.
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